grtiBwwns Department. A Youug Man Mistakes a Hobnet's Nvpvfltbsft A Pbehistobic Specimen.?A young man who lives on West Spruce street, Philadelphia, ventured out alone in the unknown regions of Lower Merion a few days ago. The yonng man did not know much about the country and it seemed quite natural that he should wish to carry home to West Spruce street as a memento of his trip, a specimen from natural history. He saw hanging from a low bush by the roadside a strange object, very much like a small balloon made of coarse gray paper. This singular thing seemed to be just the specimen he wanted. He broke off the twig from which the curiosity was suspended and went to the station. He entered a well filled car, placed his specimen in a hat-rack and sank into a seat. The car was warm. The warmth seemea very delightftil to the young man, who had been out in the cold so long. In a short time he was in a doze. The car grew warmer. The young man slept. Suddenly the artificial summer atmosphere was rent by an unearthly shriek and a lady rose convulsively and just as suddenly fainted. Before the startled passengers had time to discover the cause of their alarm another lady repeated the performance. A third who began in the same manner would probably have finished it without any change in the programme, had she not received a sudden shock that acted like hartshorn and saved her from loahut consciousness, for just behind her a man began to swear in a style truly diabolical. ^Lnd as if matters were not already bad enough, a baby set up a yell and would not be comforted. The passengers soon got into a strange commotion. The men were dancing and some of them were swearing; the women, trembling, fainting and shrieking; the children scrambling under the seats and blubbering and whimpering. The young man awoke' in amazement. For a moment he thought the people were crazy and that some one of them would do injury to his pre-historio balloon. Then the conductor burst through the crowd and stood before the yonng man. He did not speak. He leaned over in front of the young man and opened the window. The young man was surprised. The oonductor seized the pre-historic specimen and threw it through the window with all hfetsdrength. "Impertinence!" shrieked the young man. "How dare you touch my specimen!" "Your specimen!" roared the conductor. "Why, you fool, don't you know its a hornet's nest ?" The Pear James Did Not Take.?After a long search in the pantry, the other morning, Mr. Jones called his son James and the following conversation took place: "James!" "Yes, pa." "There were seven California pears in that cupboard. Six of them are gone. Do you know anything about it ?" "I never took one of them." "Sure?"' "Certain, pa. Wish I may die if?" "You wicked, bad boy; how often have I told you never to use such an expression ? Here comes ma; let me see if she knows anything about it." Mamma says she saw James take at least five of them. "You little rascal! How dare you tell me you never took one, and here is only this little one with the grub eaten side left ?" "Oh, pa, don't hit me. I said I didn't take one of them?and?and?and that's the one I didn't take." Pa relented. A Postoffice Dialgoue.?A quiet looking coon, says the Charlotte Chronicle, entered the postoffice yesterday and bawled out: "Any mail ha'r forany of the Fosters?" Mr. Pool in his usual quiet manner said, "No." "Anything for C. C. Foster?" "No, not anything." "Anything for Lillie Foster?" "No!!" "Anything for Miranda Foster. ' "No, there is not!!!" "Any for Pete Foster?" "No, not a bit." "Anything for Hub Foster ?" "No, nor Jane Foster, Paul Foster, King Foster, Matilda Foster, Linda Foster, Jim Foster, dead, living, born, or unborn, native, foreign, civilized or uncivilized, savage, barbarous, male or female, white or black, franchised or disfranchised, naturalized or otherre. No, I positively say there is nothing any of the Fosters, either individually or collectively." v The coon looked at Mr. Pool in amazement and said, "Mr., please look and see if there ain't nothing for Becea Foster?" The Means.?"See here, sir," said a philanthropist to a seedy-looking tramp, "this is the third time you have asked for help this week." "I know it." "There is no need of any one getting so low down as you seem to have reached. I was careful early in life to keep something, laid by for a rainy day. I don't see why other people oan't do the Barne thing and live within their means." "It is easy enough to advise people to live within their means," replied the tramp, "but the trouble is to find the means to live with in. That's what I am after now." He got another dollar. The Irishman's View of It.?J. Armoy Knox and some friends were discussing a few evenings ago in the rotunda of the Auditorium Hotel the injustice of parents' sins being visited upon their children. All argued that there was no justice in it; and then the helplessness of the oflfepring tainted with hereditary crime or disease was taken up and dwelt upon. An old Irishman present who had paid close attention to everything that was said, listened till all had finished and then, with the air of one who, after laborious mental effort bad come to a conclusion, said : "Oi tell yez phat it iz, now. A man can't be too partikler about his parentage."?Chicago Post. IST There's a young doctor up town, says The Detroit Free Press, who will have to improve his methods or he never will have patients enough to maintain him. A woman came to see him only two days ago looking haggard and pale. "Well," he said, "what is it?" "I'm troubled with insomnia," she aighed; "what shall I do for it?" "Sleep it it off, madam ; sleep it off," he advised, curtly, and asked her for two dollars. V, * * ACobrect Quotation.?A candidate was being examined by four professors. Feeling extremely nervous his memory failed him . several times. At last one of the professors, growing impatient, thundered out, "Why, you cannot quote a single passage of scripture correctly!" "Yes, I can!" exclaimed the candidate. "I just happen to remember a passage in the Revelation, 'And I lifted up my eyes and beheld four great beasts!' " fST "Mamma," said the next to the young?M ?2?1 UD/l/lIrt "w/1 T rv/virwr tn nlflV est {?111} Jiuuic auu X aiu guiug f""J grocery-store. Won't you give us something to start business with ?" "Here's my spool of thread and the button-bag and?" "0 we don't want them," interrupted Eddie; "why don't you give us pie or something, so if trade is bad we can eat up the stock and keep it from going to waste ?" WaF" A good story is told of a liquor dealer. He sold a country customer a jug of whisky. A few days after, the customer being dry, tried to draw a morning's potation, but lo ! it would not run. On examination, he found it frozen over. Early in the day the country customer called for an examanation. "I'll swear! them boys have gone and sold you summer whisky ! Here, boys, change j this for winter whisky." IA learned professor, addressing one of his class asked if he knew' what animal magnetism was. "I?er?er did know, but I have forgotten," was the answer. Calmly came the scathing rejoinder; "Gentlemen,! this is very unfortunate. Mr. Jones, the only man who ever knew, has forgotten what i animal magnetism is." Not Sure She'll be in it Herself.? "You'll let me go to your wedding, will you not?" said one girl to another companion. "Upon my word I can't promise. My folks are in such a rage about my wedding that I am not sure they will let me go to it myself."?Brooklyn Eagle. tST Stern Parent (to a young applicant for his daughter's hand)?Young man, can you support a family? Young Man (meekly)? I only wanted Sarah. ^ansidc Gatherings. *0TNo man ever regretted doing the best he could. ?QT Mercury solidifies at forty degrees below aero. JfiF* The census of Paris gives a population of 2,422,969. As a rule, eat less and work more, and you will feel better. 86T" When fruit falls, it indicates loss of fertility in the soil. The greater the fool the louder a mau has to talk to argue with him. US' An ounce of "don't say it" is worth a pound of "explain afterwards." To stop shoes from squeakiug, drive a peg into the middle of the sole. 16?" A blatant friend and a silent enemy can do you an equal amount of harm. 9?~ Capt. William Bruce, of San Francisco, has just cut his third set of teeth at eightytwo. Don't ask advice from others. Get the facts and ligures and act on your own judgment. a?" We judge our neighbors by ourselves, when they are good; when bad, by other neighbors. 8?* A man's idea of heaven, says Tide Atchj ison Globe, is a place where every one is as good as he is. ier Sleep eight hours of the twenty-four; eat three meals a day, and walk on the sunny side of the way. The poorest soul on earth is the man who has no time or inclination to do anything but make money. [n Dr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle, in London, seating capacity is provided for a congregation of 7,000 persons. W3T When a man reviews your private character unfavorably, and yet tells the truth, don't fight about it, but amend. 93^* Don't rob your wife all her lifetime in order to make some provision for her in case you should be first taken away. The wheat crop of South Australia and New Zealand is reported to be 2,000,000 bushels short and of poor quality. There are now 200 regularly ordained women preachers in the United States, where forty years ago there was only one. Z3T A tablespoonful of powdered alum sprinkled in a oarrei 01 wuier win piwipitate all impure matter to the bottom. g&~If you would find a great many faults, be on the lookout. If you would find them in still greater abundance be on the look-in. ??- Governor Hogg, of Texas, don't believe in lynch law, and offers a standing reward of $1,000 for anybody who engages in it. fST It takes about three seconds for a message to go from one end of the Atlantic cable to the other; this is about 700 miles a second. A married man should always make it a rule to give his wife an allowance. She always has to make a good many allowances for him. WaT Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, the eminent English divine, says that as soon as a man loses his religion he wants to know who Cain's wife was. The first virtue is to restrain the tongue. He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent even when he is in the right. V&T To clean tinware, apply common soda with a moistened newspaper, and rub with a dry piece. The tinware will look like new after this treatment. V8T The public is warned by the postmaster general, through the several postmasters, that all persons mailiug lottery matter are liable to prosecution. 1ST A colored preacher quoted a well known passage in Bhakspeare thus: "As we travel along the road from whence the traveler's bones never return." V&" Save the egg shells, put them into the oven and burn them brown ; then mash them up fine and mix with the feed. It is healthy and beneficial to the fowls. Passengers and freight are carried for one-third less on American railroads than on those of England, although American wages are double those of the mother country. 8ST" For heroic but vain endeavors to look pleased nothing can equal the facial expressions of two girls compelled to dance with each other on account of the scarcity of the men. " " ?? il.. .1.1; \ AKWwl Setr uriue yuscauer iuc wcuutu^;?aiu , you promised to give me a grand surprise after we were married; say, wliat is it ? Bridegroom (a widower)?I've got six children, my pet! 4?* "My dear sir, my case is as clear as the sun. I must surely win it!" "Yes, abstractly, of course, but remember that when a case comes to trial we have no longer anything to do with clearness." t@T Recent statistics show that the French railways annually kill one person in each 2,000,000 carried, while in England 21,000,000 are carried before one meets a violent death in a railway accident. 4?* To destroy insects in the ear, pour a teaspoonful of warm olive or camphorated oil into the ear and retain it there till morning by means of a piece of cotton wool. Wnsh out with water and mild soap. I6nt is figured that the United States has a mile of railroad for each 400 population and each 22 miles of area, while the balance of the world hus a mile for each 7,500 of population and 237 miles of area. 4?* Tommy Bingo?Sister had a beau last night, and I was peeping through the keyhole looking at them when ma came along and stopped me. Willie Slimson?What did she do? Tommy Bingo?She took a look. 4?" In the United States annually about 2,500 persons are tried for murder, with an average of about 100 legal executions. In five of the States imprisonment for life has been established for the death penalty. 4?" It keeps three large Chicago factories busy to manufacture the locomotive headlights and railroad lanterns that are used in this country. The factories give employment to eleven hundred men and boys. 4?* Dimleigh?What do you think, that Scraggs has been circulating a report that I am dishonest. Isn't that awful ? Bimleigh? Everything I know of you is respectable, I can say that. Scraggs may know something which I do not. 4?" Father (trying to read the paper)? What was that awful racket in the hall just now? Mother?One of the children fell down the stairs. Father (irascibly)?Well, you tell those children that if they cannot fall down stairs quietly, they won't be allowed to fall down them at all. 4?* If your cow, after behaving like a lady for months, surprises you with a kick, don't kick back, but find out why she kicked; she had a good reason for it, else she wouldn't have done it. Perhaps one of her teats may be scratched or cracked and very sore, or her udder may be inflamed. "I am sorry I didn't come and dine here a fortnight ago," observed the customer, | blandly. "Very good of you to say so, I'm sure," said the landlord, beaming the beam of the just and contented. "Yes," went on the customer, as if to himself, "I should have liked trying this fish when it was fresh." 8S?" Speaking of those who bring astrology to the uid of weather predictions, a scientific meteorologist says that after carefully verifying the predictions of several of the astrologists, he is led to believe that "those who put faith in them are people who kindly forget failures and only remember coincidences." fitaT" Persons sitting by a coal or wood fire are aware of a sharp crackling sound as the coal and wood ignite, but few know the reason for it. A gentleman of a scientific turn of mind explains that it is due to the air or liquid contained in the pores expanding by heat and bursting the covering in which it is confined. Ve?f "Who is your family physician, Freddy?" asked Mrs. Hendricks of the Brown boy. "We ain't got none," said the boy. "Pa's a hoimeopath, ma's an allopath, sister Jane is a Christian Scientist, grandma and grandpa buy all the quack medicines going, Uncle James believes in massage, and brother Bill is a horse doctor." #bT" All music in the house of God should be based upon and governed by the great idea that music as a part of the service in a religious congregation is an act of worship rendered to God. It shouid hence be chiefly vocal and of such a character that the congregation can join in it. The abandonment of this idea is a perversion of the fundamcn-| tal idea of church music. fpsfclliuteous fMittg. CALIFORNIA'S LABGE TREKST Many Californians regard their tall trees as the chief glory of the State. The most celebrated of the big tree groves or forests is in Mariposa county, about twenty miles from the Yosemite valley, thirty miles southeast of the town of Mariposa, and 140 miles almost due east of San Francisco. This grove is composed of over 400 giant trees, the largest of which are thirty feet in diameter and 300 feet high. The grove covers a space of a half mile wide by three-quarters of a mile long. Botanists call the mammom iree me sequoia gigantea. It is found only in California, on the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas, between latitude 34? and 41?. It is a cone-bearing evergreen, and received its botanical title from Endlicher, the German botanist. It grows at a height of about 4,500 feet above the sea level. The first specimens discovered were a cluster of ninety-two, covering a space of fifty acres in Calaveras county. When the Californians first announced the discovery of the big trees, the world was inclined to doubt their existence. There are seven big tree groves?three in Mariposa containing 134 trees over fifteen feet in diameter, and 300 smaller trees ; one in Tuolumne county, one in Calaveras county, and two in Tulare county. In every grove there are giant cloud sweepers firom 275 to 376 feet high and from twenty-five to forty feet in diameter. Some of the largest that have been felled show by their rings antiquity of from 2,000 to 2,500 years. The Calaveras grove attracts more visitors than the others, because it is more accessible. There are ten trees in this grove thirty feet in diameter. One of the trees, which is down, is estimated to have been 450 feet high and forty feet in diameter. It was the hoary monarch of the grove and died of old age, say 2,500 years. A hollow trunk called the "Horseback Ride," seventy-five feet long, gets its name from the fact that a man may ride through it upright on horseback. Just ? Ai.. j: ?r *!.? uucr lilt? uiscuvery ui mc g i u % i; vnv v* largest of the trees, ninety-two feet in circumference, was cut down. Five men worked twenty-two days in cutting through it with large augers. On the stump, which was planed off nearly to the smoothness of a ball-room floor, there have been dancing parties and theatrical performances. For a little time a newspaper, called The Big Tree Bulletiu, was printed there. One tree in the Tulare grove, according to measurements by members of the State geological survey, is 276 feet high, 106 feet in circumference at the base, and seventy-six feet at a point twelve feet above the ground. ?Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine. An Easy Place.?A lad once stepped into our office in search of a situation. He was asked: "Are you employed ?" "Yes, sir." "Then why do you wish to change ?" "Oh, I want an easier place." We had not a place for him. No one wants a boy that is seeking an easier place; yet here is the difficulty with thousands. Tbey want easy work, and are afraid of earning more than their wages. They have strength enough to be out late at night, to indulge in habits and vices that debilitate them ; they have strength enough to waste on wine or beer, or tobacco, all of which leave them weaker than before ; they have strength enough to run and leap and wrestle, but they think they have not enough to do hard work. Will the boys let us advise them? Go in for the hard places ; bend yourself to the task of showing how much you can do. Make yourself serviceable to your employer, at whatever cost of your own personal ease ; and if you do this he will soon find that he cannot spare you, and when you have learned how to work you may be sent to teach others, and so, when the easy places are to be had they will be yours. Life is toilsome at best to most of us, but the easy places are at the end, not at the beginning, of life's course. They are to be won, not accepted ; and a man who is bound to have an easy place may as well understand that the grave is the only easy 'place within the reach of lazy people.?Washington Courier. Boy Confederates.?The Richmond Dispatch is publishing a series of letters about the boy soldiers of the Confederacy, with the design of ascertaining, if possible, who was the youngest soldier in the Confederate army. Many of the letters give the names of boys who at the age of fifteen took up arms and fought through the whole war. The youngest on record up to date is an unenlisted boy named Penn. Young Penn was from New Orleans. During the war he was visiting a relative on the Chickahominy, and Gen. J. E. B. Stuart carried him to camp. At the battle of Gaines's Mill, Maj. W. Roy Mason found the fellow in a pine thicket, with a dead soldier's musket, firing away vigorousI ly at the Federals. Of course, the otficer at I once sent the boy to a place of safety. J As young Penn was not in the army he | cannot be put forward as the youngest Confederate, but his case illustrates the spirit of ! Southern boys during the early sixties. Our boy soldiers made a splendid record. Some of them, wearing the scars of battle on their still youthful faces, are among the leaders of the new South to-day. As a rule, the Confederate veteran is equal to any duty or emergency, and is as energetic in peace as in war.?Atlanta Constitution. _ Don't Worry.?The Journal of Health i says: To regain or recover health, persons should be relieved from anxiety concerning j diseases. The mind has power over the | body. For a person to think that he has a I disease will often produce that disease.! This we sec effected when the mind is in-j tensely concentrated on the disease of another. It is found in the hospitals that the j physicians and surgeons who make a speci- j alty of certain diseases are liable to die of it themselves; and the mental power is so1 strong that people sometimes die of diseases j which they only have in imagination. We ! have seen persons seasick in anticipation of I a voyage, before reaching the vessel. We | have known a person die of a cancer in the j stomach when he had no cancer or any other i disease. A man blindfolded and slightly pricked in the arm has fainted and died from ; believing that he was bleeding to death. Therefore, persons in health and desiring! to continue so, should at all time be cheerful i und happy, and those who are sick should j flw.ir ntfontinn ilrmvn its innoh as llOS- I sible from themselves. It is by their faith that men are saved, and also by their faith ' they die. If a man wills not to die he can often live in spite of disease; and if he has little or no attraction to live he will slip J away as easily as a child falls asleep. CI kn it's, Capital and La hob.?The poet i Tennyson can take a worthless sheet of pa- j per and by writing a poem on it, make it j worth sixty-five thousand dollars. That's' genius. Vandcrbilt can write a few words on a I sheet of paper and make it worth five million j dollars. That's capital. The United States can take an ounce and a quarter of gold and stamp upon it an "eagle bird" and make it worth twenty dollars. That's money. The mechanic can take the material worth five dollars and make it into a watch worth one hundred dollars. That's skill. A lady can purchase a very comfortable i bonnet for three dollars and seventy-five cents, but she prefers one that costs twenty- j seven dollars. That's foolishness. The merchant can take an article worth seventy-five cents and sell it for a dollar, i That's business. The ditch digger works ten hours a day . and shovels three or four tons of earth for four dollars. That's labor. The editor of this paper could write a, check for eight million dollar, but it would not be worth a nickel. That's rough. (?ooj> Words for Indians.?It is not i often that a regular army officer has a good : word to sav for the Indian, but Lieut. (Mass,! a recruiting oflieer at St. Louis, is an oxeep- j tion. He has many years'experience as a j commander of Indian scouts. He says that! in spite of all that has been said and written j about the treachery of the Indians, his experience is that they are only treacherous ! when they have been treacherously dealt i J with. Square dealing with them, lie says, | will always secure square dealing in return. \ As to their personal honesty he says : "When you lend an Indian money you don't ' need to take a mortgage on his pony in sccuj rity. He thinks more of paying his debts | than of supplying his necessities, and will I pay what lie owes if he has to go hungry himself. I have had Indians out with me | for months, away from any source of money supply, when I have been obliged to lend the men under my command from $1 up to $8 or $10 to buy little necessarise until we could get bade to headquarters to draw our pay. In these transactions I have often been beaten by white soldiers, but I never lost a cent on an Indian in ray life."?Indian- i apolis Journal. Bridal Oittfits to Rent.?1"Bridal out- 1 fits to rent" is the legend over a bright-looking bijou of a?store on Sixth avenue. A little French woman is the proprietor, and al- < though the business is new as well as novel, ' she says she is doing nicely. There the out- i fits, from the satin shoes to the wreath and 1 veil, may be obtained at a nominal cost. 1 The stock of dresses is large and varied, and < a young bride will surely find some cut or I style to catch her faucy. And, after all, ! what a valuable idea is this invention! It strikes you oddly at fli-st. But then the i life of to-day, especially in New York, is more practical. Sentiment is well enough with plenty of time and wealth to indulge it. The French woman finds her customers not, 1 as you would suppose, among the poorer 1 people, hut those in moderate circumstances. ' Many ambitious girls wouldn't want to ap- 1 pear in their wedding gowns the second ' time. So the little French "milliner" fills 1 in nicely. The "gown" disappears, and a ' new dress appears. Quite an idea, eh?? 1 New York Continent. ' The Price of Wisdom.?There is nothing < stranger to youth than the persistency with which age profFers its experience ; there is nothing more trying to age than the deter- ] mination of youth not to accept it. The fathers, mothers and guardians who have I learned their hard lessons would be glad to J impart their knowledge, without its ruinous : price, to those they love. But the youngsters will have none of it. No, they must ! buy their own wisdom, "dree their own 1 weird," "pay the piper" themselves. No 1 yearning affection can shield them from the * trials and temptations they rush so gayly to meet. ? But why should the elders continually mourn that Buch is the case ? They have ^ spent their lives in learning how to live. So ( did their predecessors. Their children will ( do the same. The law is universal. Knowledge comes only with age and wisdom with ( the close of life. It must be that it was so , intended. The blunders of youth, the strug- j gles of maturity, the regrets of age, are all j part of the inevitable t raining of each soul; ( a training necessary before it is prepared to j enter on a fuller life.?Harper's Bazar. , Wise And Beautiful Answers.?A Sophist, wishing to puzzle Thales with difficult questions which he had arranged, put the following, to which Thales answered without hesitation and with the utmost precision : What is the oldest of all things ? God, for He existed always. What is the most beautiful ? The world, for it is the work of God. What is the greatest of all things ? Space, for it contains all things. What is the most constcmt ? Hope, for it remains when all else is tied. What is the best of all things? Virtue, for without it there is nothing. , What is the quickest? Thought, in a miuute it can reach the end of the universe. What is thestrongest? Necessity, it makes men face all dangers. What is the easiest of all things? To give advice. I What is the most difficult? To know thy- I self. ? Our Railway Corporations.?'There are 1,718 railway corporations in this country, operating 156,400 miles of road, and giving employment to a vast army of 689,912 persons. Six hundred of these corporations practically control the freight and passenger trade of this country. Houses aro furnished trackmen, watchmen, and section hands by 149 of the principal roads, nineteen support beneficiary institutions for their employees, fifteen others contribute to outside beneficiary institutions, twenty contribute to railroad branches of the Young Men's Christian Association, twenty-one contribute to the expenses of hospitals, and many others provide eating-houses and have established reading and club rooms. Incidentally it may be mentioned that the life insurance department of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has distributed $2,500,000 to the widows and orphans of members of the organization. The benefit associations of other branches of the railway service are also doing very good. Gen. Lee's Unselfishness.?Here is a story illustrative of the consideration Gen. Lee always showed for others while remaining absolutely indifferent to what might befall himself. It was in the Wilderness fight, and he and Gen. Wade Hampton were pass ing over the field. They came to a narrow I pass between woods, and Gen. Lee noticed that the passage was well covered by the Northern sharpshooters, who were doing effective work. "Hampton," said the commanding general, "I reckon you had better go 'round through the trees and meet me on the other side, as the fire of the sharpshooters is very dangerous here." That is all there is of the story. Of course Gen. Hampton said, "Gen. Lee, I guess if you can walk there I can follow you." But note the unconsciousness of personal danger and the unselfishness of Lee. These were incessant characteristics of his.?New York Sun. How to Manage a Watch.?Most of the troubles which befall a watch arise from irregular winding. Have a particular hour for winding, and if your timepiece is not a keyless one see that the key fits perfectly. Loose keys slip about the post and jar the delicate mechanism. Don't be afraid of overwinding; few accidents occur in that way, as every watch is provided with a stop. If you sleep with your watch under j your pillow place it face upward, with the ring partially underneath. Be careful to: put it in the same position nightly. Don't j open the cases to show the works, and never ( blow in your key when it is stopped up; the ; moisture of the breath rusts the inside, and j the rust in time is transferred to the posts | and other parts. Smakt Swindlers.?Two Frenchmen up- j peared at a linen factory in Jarolsay, in the ! < Volga, four weeks ago, and told the manu- j facturer that they were French government commissioners with an order for a cloth case in which to wrap the Eiffel Tower in winter. J They presented so many sealed documents ] and letters, with the signatures of celebrated j Frenchmen, that the manufacturer swallowed i their marvellous story and agreed to tuke 1 the huge contract. The "commissioners" i required from him $1,200 as an earnest of j his intention to turn out the tower's new ] clothes, and left him with directions that he j should go to Paris at once to communicate j further with the city officials and to measure j the tower. He went, with several assistants, , who were to help him determine the details of the undertaking, and thereby spent $300 more to learn that he had been swindled. To (Jet 'ro The World's Fair.?A ] novel scheme has been originated in Kear- J ney. Neb., by which people of limited means , are to be enabled to visit the World's Fair, i The World's Fair Excursion and Invest- } ment company invites persons to pay to it < $52 in installments of 50 cents a week, and J in return promises to take them to the I World's Fair in special trains, pay for their meals en route, their living expenses for a i week in Chicago at the best $3 a day hotel, j { and furnish them with tickets of admission, 11 guides and printed information. As to } whether the proposition is a taking one has i not yet developed, but the idea seems to be J peculiarly commendable and will probably spread. The Shamrock.?The Shamrock, Ire- i land's emblem, is a trefoil, or three leaved i grass, much resembling our white clover. I According to tradition, when St. Patrick landed near Wicklow, in 433, the pagan inhabitants were on the point of stoning him to death ; but, having obtained a hearing, he endeavored to explain to them the Trinity in Unity, but lliey could not understand it. j At last he stooped and plucked a trefoil ' * -- l :.i . 1.1.. nDa;l,|n I H (MliUni'OCK,; illlll Nun ; in u inn ?.-> |iujviii?iv t j for thi' Faither, Son and Holy (?host to be n one, ais it is for these three leaves to grow upon a single stalk?" The Irish were eon- j T vineed, and the Shatnroek was adopted as the national emblem.?St. Louis Republic. 1 BttT' It is ;i rare thing that the fractional part of an inch of a piece of ground is conveyed by a separate deed. In recopying one of the old hooks of the first series such a | deed was found, says The Cincinnati Fn- quirer. It was made out in 1822 by Arthur * St. Clair. The conveyance reads: "The 1-1000 pt. of an inch from the n. e. cor. of lot No. 23, and running south 1-4 of an inch; thence w. to the back line of said lot; thence n. 1-4 of an inch; thence e. to pt. of beginning. Bought by G. W. Jones." The cost of this dwarfy piece of earth is put down at two dollars and a quarter. How to Get the Number of a Congress. To determine the uumber of any congress in this century add 13 to the year in which the congress first convened and divide by 2?the quotient will be the number c f the congress. Thus the last congress conver ed in '89 ; adding 13 gives 102, half of which gives 51, the last being the Fifty-first congress. Conversely, to find the year in which any numbered congress convened, double the number of the congress and deduct 13. Thus of the Fifteenth congress: 2multiplied by 15minus 13 equals 17, and the Fifteenth congress met in 1817. No Swearers There.?A little girl was taught by her teacher that no swearer can enter into heaven. She heard her father wearing one clay and went and sat behind the door, crying. Her fath er asked what die was crying for. She told him what her teacher said, and that she was crying because she was afraid that he would not get to heaven. He h 7 eonily Children Cry for yzTCEa &'S CAST0R1A known to me." H. A. Archkr, M. p.. Ill South Oxfoi-d St, Brooldyn, N. Y "I use Castorla in my practice, and find it specially adapted to affections of children, spe^uu/ ?- j^ux Bomuitsok, M. IV, 11)67 Sd Are., New York. "From Dereonal knowledge I can say that 0JSSffS* grSLS,?"1drea' ' Lowell, Haas. 9S& cSRSSJtfa&SK sleep natural. Gastcria contains no Morphine or other narcotic property. December 23 lyto SlDec. 23, '91 [UCHMOND AND DANVILLE K. K. CO., SOUTH CAROLINA DIVISION, r.4 SS KSd Kit II KI'A It I'M EST. MONDENKKI) Schedule ill otTect Muy lOtli, 1891. Trains run by 75th Merldlun time: SOl'TII HOl'NII. j N((-u-|-NoVii.-| So. T7? ~~ stations. Dully. Dully. r V Now York 12 15 met 4 .10 pin 12 15 am Lv Philadelphia...; ? 11111 !!:?{!!!! n rSjJJ Lv Baltlmoro (5 50 am O.Wpin 6.wain LvZSn 11 15am 11 00pm 8 40 pin f n Rirhmorid ^ 00 pin 2 ?>iam I \l (treensboro U> 30put 10 12am o 10urn Lv iffsbtS?ZZ 12 :?um 11 ? ?"? !! ?om \r al Charimte!.......; ' 2 10 an, 1 20 pm 7 i.pm Lv Charlotte - Mam 1 pin Lv ltock Hill 1 J q 32 r v Chester Wain ? I-piu Lv Wlmwbom * Warn J Wp," Vrat Columbia ' A)am _> 40 pm Lv Columbia 11 ^1,111 2 ijlj!'1!! r ?, Tnhimton's H.-M alii ' pin , I v Trenton ' 9JK am 7 58 pm ^vOmnltevi'iie OAluni 8 27 pm S,"ta 10-20 am 0 10 pin xl (Tmrlestoii 11 05am 0 4.5 pm. S2:r::r,,i?p?? ??>" ? NOKTH IIOl'Nl). | No. 10. | No. 12. | No. :w# htationh. Dally. Daily. Dullj. r mt s? van nail 1' 40iiin.ll ?t0pm ";: =:IS5Sii8SS= f. n^rmviiie' .: 7 .T2.mril.07 an. ,v Granlteville 7 52 pm 11 17 am a* Trenton 1 N 22pinll 45 am ,v Johnston's ' 8 3rt jnn 11 59 am. \r Columbia 10:15 pm1 1 45pm jV Columbia 11 00pm! 2 00pm I a* Wlnnsboro 12 51umj '$ 85 pm j\' Chester 2 02 mm 4 43 pm j\ Koek Hill 2 52am 5 20pm \r Charlotte I 00amI 0 30 pm a* Charlotte 5 20am 7 00pur 0 20pm Salisbury 0 52um! 8 55pm 10 32 pm a* Greensboro 8 55nm 10 40j?m 12 Wlutn A' Richmond 4 20 pm 7 00 am ,v Washington : 7 50 jnn 10 25am 8 38 uni a* Haltlinore 1! 25pm 12 05pm 10 03am a* Philadelphia 1 3 OOatm 2 20 pm 12 :v> pm Vr New York i 0 20alii; 4 50 pm 3 20 jnn Vestlbulod limited. THKOUOII CAK SKItVICI'!. Pnlltnun Curs between Greensboro, N. and Au[ustaon train* 9 and 10. Train 12 connects at Cliaruttewlth Washington and Soot li western Vest I baled halted train No. 38 and Vestibnled tmin No. 37. .outh-bnund connects at Charlotte wlthS. C. Mlvis-j on No. 9, for Augusta. J. A. Godson, Sa|HTintendont. W. II. OltiCKN, General .Manager. Jas. I.. Tayi.oh, Gen. Pass. Agt. Hoi. Hass, Traflic Manager. I). f'akdw'KLI., IHv. l'ass. Agt., Columbia, S. C. May 20 15 tf exchange IIANK. Yorkville M. C. |\ S. JKKFEIIYS - President. IOS. F. WALLACE Vice-President. 'HANK A. < ! LIIEItT Cashier. Orgunl/.cd W?-pl?'inl??T 1, 1HS7. IUl'E HANK will receive Deposits, buy and _ jiell Exchange, limko Loans ami do a getieal Hanking ilnsitiess. The ollieers tender their eeiirleoits services to Is natrons and tin; public generally. j:d yearly increasing. Whj ? Because the Count nrla flooded with Cheap, Inferior InatrumenU, built TO SELL-NOT TO USE and the pnblio baa fonnd ont that WE DON'T SELL THAT KIND ' Our Instrument* lead the world. Our Priree, I.|\MN than factories Terms, Easiest, Methods, Fairyat. Inducements, greatest, and sve pixy Irrlalil. Write for Free Catalogue* and Circular* explaining fully?all in plain print. Easy to buy from c? IUDDEN&BATEQ L. Southern Music House, U " SAVANNAH, CA. LIVERY AND FEED STABLES. I WOULD respectfully announce to my old friends and the traveling public that I have returned to Yorkville, and in the future will give inV personal attention to the LIVEHY AND KlCEl) STABLES so long conducted by inc. I)etcrinineeriority possessed by the Corldn Harrow . 1. It is the only Disk Harrow that i* perfectly flexible (i. e. one that will adapt itse'.i to uneven surfaces). 2. It is tho only Harrow in which thogangsare independent of each other?either can tit or follow an inequality without disturbing tho other. I .'1. It is the only Harrow having chilled boxes and anti-frlctionballs. 4. It is the only Harrow that has a successful Seeder Attachment. 5. It is the only combined Harrow and Seeder that covers every kernel of grain in rows like a drill. (1. The Corbin is unequaled for lightucss ol draft and power as a pulverizer. GARRY IRON RO Manufactures ull kinds of ClUMl'KD AND COKUIMJATKII SIDING, ^HHfH Iron Tile or Shingle, KIUK PKOOt' DOOICS, SltUTTKItS, AC., THE UARREST MANUFACTURERS ( Orders received by L. M. (lit 1ST. March 18 & L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD. SCHEDULE of Mull and Pusscngor trains from Lenoir, N. C., to Chester, S. C., and from Chester to Lancaster, dally except Sunday, taking effect May 10,1891. south hound. | No. II. | No. 41. Leave l.enoir..? S 22uin t! .TOiim Leuve Hickory U .Wain S .HI a in Leave Newton 10 llmo 10 It! a It) Leave Llncolnton 11 12am 11 .TOum Leave Dullas 12 03 pm 1 :10 pm IAtive Gustnnhi 12 23juu 2 Mipm IA-ave Clover I otipin :i 41 pm Ia-uvc Yorkvllle ] 40 jtin 4 53pm Leave (iuthrlesvllle 2 0:1pm 3 1(7 pm Leave McConnellsvlile 2 11pm ii .*>2 j>m IAiive I/)wrysvllle 2.12pm ii 18 pm Arrive at Chester .'toojnn 7 00 pm nohtji hound. I No. 12. | No. 40. Leave Chester 4 4.'ipm II 00 am Leave lAtwrysvllle .jllpm 0 .Riain lA'ave MeConnellsvllle .j 2!i pm 10 03 am IicuveGuthricsvllle 3 .'17 pm 10 20am Leave Yorkvllle .3 3!ipm 10 53am Leave Clover ti :t3pm I! .32am 1 A*ave Gustonla 7 17inn 120pm Leave Dallas 7.31pm 2 20pm Leave Lineolnton 8 42pm :: :t'> j>iu Leave Newton ii 42 pm 5 02 pm Leave Hickory 10 20pm 0 20j>m Arrive at Lenoir II :tl pm s 23 inn No. o. | C'lierutv ?fc | No. 10. 4 43pm Ia-uvo CHESTER Arrive 10 4.1am 3 23pm .'. KNOX'S 10 O-'ltim 5 47pur RICHIU'RG 1) 40am ? II pm HASCOM V1LLK ? 23am ?:ilpm! FOltT LAWN I) 00am 7 2l)pm' Arrive LANCASTER Lave S 20pm J. A. IIODSON, Superintendent. SOL HASH, J. L. TAYLOR, I). CARDW EI,I., TraltleM'ng'r. Gen. Pass. Agt. D. 1'. A. Columbia, S. ('. APPLICATION run n.inin.. VTOT1CE is hereby given that W. HKOWN WYLIE, C. C.<\ l'leas, and Administrator of the estate of J. BOLTON S.M ITU, deceased, will make a tinal settlement with the Judge of Probate for York county, on the 5th day of June, 1X01,at 1 o'clock P. M., when hewi'l apply for a tinal discharge from liability as administrator of the said estate. \Y. HKOWN WYLIK. C. C. t'. Pis. and Administrator. May 0 1J at l\l)i:itT\kl\. JKKFKKYS. CHATTEL >K)KT(;A<; IIS, 1" IKXS FOK SUPPLIES, Kent Liens, Titles J to Keal Estate and Mortgages on Keal Estate. Koranic at THE ENQliKEK OFFICE. January IS 51 tf ?3 I iSj L jBff SfjR H^^HHHM^H B n| OA Mh vB fered in Sewing Machines. ACHINE FOR $16?, , ICRIPTION TO TIIIE ENQUIRER. 8 to offer the CHICAGO SINGER SEWING MAfor a GOOD MACHINE, and we offer our readsi. i ' f the Singer Machines, and ia a perfect facsimile in >art8 are made to gauge exactly the aame as the i materials. f the materials used, and only the very beet qualrell made and 1h fitted with the utmost nicety and ispector to go out of the shops until it has been < un light ana without noise. very important improvement in a Loose Balance 4 ns without removing the work from the Machine, did bolt passing through a collar securely pinned silt is firmly held to position by a strong spiral is pulled out tar enough to release the balance re it is hold by a stop pin until the bobbin is filled, by children, the bolt can be left out of the wheel Seraterf by the treadle. e SELF-THREADING, which is a very great th the Following Attachments: widths, 1 Screw Driver, 1 Foot Rntfier, 1 Wrench, 1 Gauge Screw, 1 Check Spring, 1 Binder, 1 Instruction Book, 5 Bobbins. to be the simplest, easiest running and moat conihs the very liest tension and thread liberator, is 4 i hardened, and is finished in a superior style. It * and a center swing drawer. The manufacturers y A PREMIUM FOR SIXTY yearly subscribers rh; or for THIRTY yearly subscribers at $1.75 3 YORKVILLE ENQUIRER, $16.00. J, and delivered on lioard the cars in Chicago, with rill lie shipped direct to the subscriber or clube paid by the person who receives the Machine. ty point in this section will average about $1.50. it office address. 4 L. M. GRIST, Yorkvllle, S. C. " tf BIN UiKOW IN TIIK FIELD. U lie Time To Buy* ' The Harrow With Seeder Attachment. Every Corbln Harrow, whatever the size, Lsar| ranged so that a Seeder can he attached to it. j The Seed Box and its machinery are of the moat ! simple and compact character. All its metal ; parts are of malleable or retined wrought iron. Its weight is (of the size to tit the No. 7, 12-disk : Harrow) al>out eighty pounds. The Seeder Attachment is removablo at pleaa ure. It locks itself llrmly to the Harrow frame I by simply putting it into position. Neither bar, ! bolt, wedge, key, screw orpin, is used to listen 1 it. Therefore, no hammer, wrench or other tool I is required to attach or detach it. Half a minute of time will remove and one minute replace it. The Harrow and Seeder combined cost about i half as much as a Drill, and is a better tool. It : will sow grain as evenly as any drill, cover it beti tor, and place it at any depth in the ground. It is two complete implements in one. It prepares i the Held in the best possible manner for seeding and then sows the crop. It sows RED RUST , ! PROOF OATS capitaliv. i The St. Lawrence M'f'g Co., who are the man' ufacturers of the Corbin Harrow, recommend j the No. 7 Harrow as being best adapted to genI oral farm work. It iH made in two sizes, viz.: 12 ; disks, 1(3 inches in diameter, and 6-foot cut, and the other size has 10 IG-inch disks and 5-foot cut. | I keen a few No. 7 12-disk Harrows on hand and j can till orders promptly. j I am sole agent for the St. Lawrence M'Pg Co. for York, Chester, Fai rfield and Lancaster counties, S. C., and Mecklenburg county, N. C. I am prepared to quote unusually low prices , and liberal terms. Call on or write to ine at I once. SAM M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. OFING COMPANY, IKON ORE PAINT Aim comuni. ZagHHk 152 TO 158 MERWIN ST., Cleveland, O. Send for Circular ***'&&* .i^^j umj prjPe No. 75. )F IKON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. (t tf PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY. THOROUGHLY tltted up with new back- ? grounds, accessories, Ac., and with a line sky-light, I am prepared to take a picture in any style of the art, as well executed as can lie done ! elsewhere. | CHILDREN'S PICTURES A SPECIALTY. I I By the dry plate process I can take them inI stantly ; makes no difl'eronce about fair or cloudy weather. I do all inv own printing and (hushing, and 1 there is very little delay in delivery. ENLARGED WORK. Pictures copied and enlarged and liuishod in the highest style to be had, and prices reasonable, j (live me a call and see specimens of work, at inv (lallerv on West I.iberty street, near the jail. J. H. SCHORB. j January 21 50 tf JOli PRINTING. rpilE KX(}l'IKK!t OFFICE being now sup; .1 plied with a SPLENDID OL*rKIT OF MODERN JOB PRESSES and TYPE OF THE LATEST STY EES, all JOB PRINTING ' usually required in this section, will be executed in' the BEST MANNER and at FAIR PRICES for the material used and the character I of the work done. SOLE AGENT. rrilllS will certify that SAM M. GRIST, of j 1. Yorkville, S. ('., has been appointed as SOLE I Agent for the sale of COR BIN DISK HARROWS, CORBIN ROAD CARTS, Ac., in und for the counties of YORK, CHESTER, LANCASTER and FAIRFIELD, in the State of < 'opoltiiii .in/I M KCK I,EN BF KG eonntv. ! in tlu> State of North Carolina. ST. LAWRENCE M'F'G CO. (The ilovluillf (SNiquiw. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. j TKHMW or Wl' 1WCHI PTION I Single copy for one year, $ '1 OO j < >ne copy tor two years, 3 SO i For six 'months I OO j For three months, SO Two eopies for one year, 3 SO Ten copies one year 17 SO , 1 And an extra eopy for a eltih of ten. AOVLUTIH10 M 10 TN | Inserted at One Dollar per square for the tirst insertion, and Kitty Cents per square for eaeli i subsequent insertion. A square consists of the spare occupied liy eight lilies of this size type. / ft- Contracts for advertising space for three, six, or twelve months will he made on reasonhie terms. f I W Trihull's of Respect ami Obituaries will he charged for at the rate of ten cents per line. Ilelorc they will he published, satisfactory arrangement's must be made for the payment of I the charges. Notices of deaths will lie inserted gratuitously, and such information is solicted, ! provided the death is of recent occurrence.